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French prince, soldier, adventurer and politician, son of Lucien Bonaparte and representative for Corsica in the assemblies of 1848–1851. He also wrote a concise manual on sword handling, known from its Paris 1869 second edition.
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French literary critic, writer and translator from Russian who contributed to Le Correspondant. Pierre-Paul Douhaire introduced Russian prose to French readers through criticism and anthologies including Le Décaméron russe.
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French Romantic novelist, poet and dramatist Eugène Augustin Nicolas Roger, known by the pen name Roger de Beauvoir. His historical and literary interests included arms, celebrated duels and duellists.
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French cavalry officer, composer and fencing writer, author of the illustrated Traité d’escrime: pointe et contre-pointe (1884).
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French historian, philosopher and royal councillor; author of Les loix militaires touchant le duel and narrator of the celebrated duel between La Châtaigneraie and Jarnac.
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French fencing author known from La théorie pratique de l’escrime, pour la pointe seule, avec des remarques pour l’assaut. The title circulated with the surname forms Batier and Battier.
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French poet, dramatist, critic and journalist associated with Parnassian poetry and Parisian literary life. Théodore de Banville wrote across verse, theatre and prose; the linked Spanish periodical component reproduces his Duelo de Monstruos in La España Moderna.
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French cleric and dance theorist, born Jehan Tabourot, best known for `Orchesographie`. He is relevant to the project as a key witness to Renaissance bodily practice, gesture, movement pedagogy, and the social disciplines that stood close to martial and courtly training.
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French orientalist, historian, archaeologist and numismatist noted for research on Armenia and the medieval eastern Mediterranean. In 1857 he published a study of the sabre then attributed to Constantine XI.
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Lyon writer identified as Vingtrinier aîné, associated with the 1889 fencing notice L’Escrime encore et toujours à Lyon; the bare duplicate heading formerly attached to Cavalcabo has been removed.
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French poet, soldier, translator and prose writer, author of Le vray et ancien usage des duels (1617).
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